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The November 2022 Saturday Broadsheet

This month’s Saturday Broadsheet, with all my writing life updates, is now available at the link below.

In this issue of the Broadsheet you will find:

  • a writing project and publishing updates
  • a few books that are on sale or free
  • and the story of Percival the Frog

Have a great weekend!

I hope you have time to read a book.


The Colonel and a Cup of Cider

Warm spices. Autumnal flavours.

Those are the sorts of scents and special foods that come to my mind whenever I write about Colonel Fitzwilliam.

He is my character who has a sweet tooth when it comes to biscuits and will drop whatever he is doing in pretty much any story for a gingerbread… and in this story, he’ll also drop what he’s doing (even hiding from Caroline Bingley) for a cup of cider.

I think he’d enjoy the mulled cider from the recipe in the short video above since it is a cup of mulled cider that Darcy uses to entice him to enter Netherfield instead of staying out in the cold.

Here’s how his journey to happily ever after (with Caroline — yep, Caroline) begins in One Winter’s Eve:

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Ladies Having Tea (Albert Lynch)

Femmes Prenant le Thé (Women Having Tea), Albert Lynch, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

I saw this picture and thought of this rather memorable ladies having tea scene below. Here, Mary Ellen Dobney is sharing the true story behind a story that Lydia heard Captain Harris tell in Brighton. Captain Harris is Mary Ellen’s cousin, and Lydia has never liked him. Enjoy!

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Never skip a step

Hey, everyone.

I hope you’re weekend is off to an ok start. Mine has started with a message that the link in the Saturday Broadsheet post (You can find that post here) was not working.

It has been fix! So, I thought I post this so that all who subscribe to my blog and maybe tried to read earlier and couldn’t would know that you can read the Broadsheet now.

Apparently, I forgot to hit enter when adding the link last night when creating the Broadsheet post. AND because it was late (11pm), I decided to skip the preview and check step. I had created lots of these posts. I knew what I was doing. I didn’t need to check.

Yeah, right!

I should have checked and prevented frustration for those who tried to read and couldn’t.

Sorry! Hope the rest of your day is good.

Leenie

P.S. Yes, I did check the link above and it works. 🙂


The October 2022 Saturday Broadsheet

This month’s Saturday Broadsheet, with all my writing life updates, is now available at the link below.

In this issue of the Broadsheet you will find:

  • a personal update
  • a few books that are on sale
  • and a picture of some mourning jewelry and a story excerpt

Have a great weekend!

I hope you have time to read a book.